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Table of Contents
History and Religion
Section 1. Origins and developments
Introduction
The historiography of Brahmanism
Construing ‘religion’ by doing historiography: The historicisation of religion in the Roman Republic
The use of historiography in Paul: A case-study of the instrumentalisation of the past in the context of Late Second Temple Judaism
Flirty fishing and poisonous serpents: Epiphanius of Salamis inside his Medical chest against heresies
Reading sutras in biographies of Chinese Buddhist monks
History and Heilsgeschichte in early Islam: Some observations on prophetic history and biography
The development and formation of religious historiography in Tibet
Medieval memories of the origins of the Waldensian movement
The use of history by French Protestants and its impact on Protestant historiography
Section 2. Writing histories
Introduction
A Perso-Islamic universal chronicle in its historical context: Ghiyas_ al-Din Khwandamir’s ?abib al-siyar
Conditions for historicising religion: Hindu saints, regional identity, and social change in western India, ca. 1600–1900
Practitioners of religious historiography in early modern Europe
Impartiality, individualisation, and the historiography of religion: Tobias Pfanner on the rituals of the Ancient Church
‘The gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it’: The narrative of the victorious Church in French Church histories of the nineteenth century
Conflicting historiographical claims in religiously plural societies
Religion and economic development: On the role of religion in the historiography of political economy in twentieth century China
Section 3. Transforming narratives
Introduction
The notion of tradition in liturgy
Verbs, nouns, temporality and typology: Narrations of ritualised warfare in Roman Antiquity
Judaism: An inquiry into the historical discourse
President de Brosses’s modern and post-modern fetishes in the historiography and history of religions
Historia sacra and historical criticism in biblical scholarship
A Catholic ‘magician’ historicises ‘magic’: Éliphas Lévi’s Histoire de la Magie
Locating the history of Christianity between the history of the Church and the History of Religions: The Italian case
Contributors
Index